This conclusive lyric sets up the ending chorus of the song and nicely wraps up the track in a satisfactory, full-circle fashion. The lyrics comment on a cohesive structure of the song that establishes a clear lyrical flow and chronology that is satisfactory for music listeners.

4th extended (modified) chorus

Chorus 3

Chorus 1

Chorus 2

The use of "we" stresses the innate collectivism the song harbors throughout its structure. The union of artist and audience further makes the song palatable and accessible for a broader universal audience beyond the band's regular returning listeners.

This lyric builds on the song's simplification of stress. Problems can seem big and overwhelming when one is "in the weeds," however the general use of reassuring language here adds to the song's "safe haven" environment that comforting lyrics create.

The lyric "and try to keep a little love" again stresses positivity and is a repetition of a previous lyric "and try to keep a little grace." This is another example of how lyrical repetition is used regularly throughout the song. It resembles similar lyrical trends in popular mainstream music that are musically satisfactory to the listener. "Love" a trope commonly sung about in popular music, is also integrated into the lyrics of the song.

The lyrical repetition emphasizes the overarching message of perseverance throughout the song. The original "I will get by" line switches the use of pronouns to "we" which is symbolic of the song's use of collectivism to make itself more accessible to its audience.

This lyric presents positive imagery of carrying on and persevering. It's emblematic of "choosing to be happy" and contributes to the song's overall positive messaging.

Trying to keep a little grace is emblematic of keeping one's "cool" and persevering through hard times. This message is emblematic of the song's uplifting purpose of stressing perseverance. This contributes to the song's positive messaging.

This alludes to the old military alphabet before it was changed in 1952 to what it is today.

The ABCs are a stand-in term for struggles that "we all must face". The song employs collectivism, uniting its listeners under their different struggles.

This lyric neglects to address a specific emotion to make room for a variety of emotions the listener may possibly be experiencing. This given space allows the listener to prescribe their own worry, sadness, anger, frustration, or other struggles to this lyric and relate. This simplicity and vagueness that creates space for listeners to relate is a common technique used throughout the song to make it more broadly accessible.

Like the previous lyric "it's alright" these lines have the same function. This is the chorus of the song. The lyrics "I will get by" are general and simple. They are quintessential examples of the positive messaging caked in throughout the lyrics. No matter the struggle, it ensures the listener that the trouble will pass and their current worries will enter the realm of the past. It suggests the bare minimum of survival is enough, and makes the complicated stressful nature of life more simple and less existential. These lyrics function therapeutically and appeal universally to an audience of listeners. The inclusiveness of the lyrics makes one of the most memorable parts of the song appealing to a larger mainstream audience.

The "it's alright" lyric first appears here but regularly reoccurs throughout the song's lyrics. The structure of the line is clear and concise and uses a common phrase of reassurance. This lyric's repetition makes it a bigger takeaway after listening to the song. It reaches out to listeners and naturalizes their anxiety, stress, and struggles. It provides relief that alleviates some of the pressure felt by listeners. It also reinforces overarching themes of hopefulness and joy. The overall uplifting function of this lyric mimics pop music.

These three lines establish a consistent meter of seven syllables per lyric and a consistent rhyme scheme stressing the "air" sound at the ending of each last word. This sonically makes the lyrics have more synchronicity and consistency and establishes an inviting, accessible lyrical rhythm.

The clear juxtaposition of "early" and "late" in the song's first two lines establishes connectivity through generating a reciprocal. This choice adds a palatable coherence and flow to hook listeners and encourage listening further into the song.

Opening the song with a sense of earliness signifies dawn and the beginning of a new day. The following lyrics, "Paint by numbers morning sky," "Dawn is breaking everywhere," and "Draw the curtains," clarify and emphasize morning imagery, newness, and a sense of rebirth. The choice to start the song like starting a new day employs chronology and fullness that makes the track more appealing.

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This positive message repeats itself throughout the song's lyrics. It effectively complements the joyful music that backs Jerry Garcia's vocals. The inherent positivity and happiness the project harbors arguably helped the Grateful Dead reach a broader audience of pop music consumers which made the record go platinum.

Originally, the lyric was supposed to end with "piss off" instead of the final studio version as noted in the lyrics here, "get out." The phrasing was revised due to anxiety over the line hurting the track's air time on the radio.

This anxiety is emblematic of a shift in the band's attitude towards radio since their earlier album, "Working Man's Dead." That era of the band's career relished in counter-cultural ignorance of platforming their music through radio to achieve air-time revenue. Instead, they spread their music through live performances, allowing fans to bootleg audio recordings.

The emphasis on distance from home here makes the landscape appear foreign. It resembles the wartime image of a soldier, far from home, on a foreign battlefield.

The synonymous landscape of the forest universalizes the setting of Frost's poem. This snowy forest could be anywhere. Geography is left out of Frost's description of the setting which further limits the intrusion of human constructs.

I read an article describing the importance of place names for Frost in his poetry. These lines directly contradict that assertion. I feel they allude to how war takes away the significance of a place because the landscape becomes unrecognizable.

reminds me of the muddy trenches/ no mans land

Frost's use of imagery emphasizes the landscape's verticality. The image of the forest appears abstract, lined by tall, straight trees. Its simplicity makes it eerie. The image reminds me of a movement in film history called "German Expressionism." The Expressionist movement in art brought out the human condition into the external in an attempt to recreate reality. This movement entered film when some German painters did some set designs and employed their nightmarish style in expressionist film. I feel this movement explains this imagery and thus furthers the estrangement of Frost's landscape, and thus furthers war imagery.

Very abstract, two-dimensional description of the landscape. The landscape is described as very vertical.

This line implies frost venturing into an unknown. he is not sure what is ahead on his walk and he wishes to find out.

Frost's use of pronouns clarifies crucial actions that set up this poem. Frost establishes he (by himself) will do the action of going on further. However, his language shifts and suddenly the reader is included in his experience. I think Frost establishes a goal he wishes to accomplish through reading. He wishes to discover something with the reader.

Frost's dialogue continues and he makes the decision to remain on his walk, and the setting of the poem remains the same. What causes Frost's unsureness is interesting. He clarifies his desire to see something and maybe find something out.

Frost's employment of dialogue emphasizes his cognitive dissonance. The previous line first introduces a place, the setting of the poem, which Frost immediately threatens to leave.

Frost introduces himself as the speaker through first-person language.

The self is removed from the introduction in this poem. Frost makes a deliberate decision not to begin with "I was out walking," instead of: "out walking." He creates an image instead, walking in the frozen swamp on a gray day.

Because I know you well beyond your surface, visual beauty. as well as a midwife.

Donne's double entendre to his lover: "Why must you cover yourself with clothes?" -- "Cover yourself with me"

Fancy way of saying "take off your clothes"

there is nothing to gain for punishing yourself because of your innocence

Lay-men; men of no special knowledge as opposed to a priest. Ordinary.

religious texts. Likely sections of the bible.